sometimes a blog by Dan Greene
Where do you think an Apple Store would you in Knoxville, Tennessee? Probably somewhere at in Farragut right? Maybe Turkey Creek, there’s lots of high end stores out there. Nope, Knoxville’s Apple store is in West Town Mall.
Cheers to Knoxville for getting an Apple Store. Wonder what the chances are of Johnson City getting one are? Something about a snowball’s chance comes to mind… 🙂
My second round of eBay auctions is up.
Star Wars Trilogy Remastered in THX
Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition VHS Gold Box
As you can see, I wasn’t content with just selling the LD player and Star Wars LDs. I’m selling all theStar Wars movies that I own. I don’t watch them anymore and I could use the cash. 🙂
My first round of eBay auctions went ok. I underestimated my shipping cost a bit, and the eBay fees took a huge chunk out of my earnings. Luckily I found I free service, Auctiva that really dropped my fees. Granted I got a few extra features the first time, like a bold listing and a subtitle, but my costs are down from 7 dollars to 40 cents.
Nothing has sold yet, but hopefully going the cheaper route will pay off.
I didn’t make it to my 10 year high school reunion. But picutures from last weekend’s event are being posted. This set is from Julie. All I can say is my hair may br starting to go gray (actually it’s skipping directly to white) but at least I still have hair.
Update 6/23. More pictures, this time from John Stone.
Well my laserdisc player and Star Wars LDs are now for sale on eBay.
It’s my first time selling on eBay so I probably didn’t do things in the most efficent/best way. Selling on eBay is easy to do but hard to do right. I used to wonder how eBay made money but not anymore. They nickel and dime you for everything. An extra 50 cents here, 15 cents there, and the next thing you now you’ve spend 7 bucks to list your item.
The LD’s have already sold, guess my “Buy It Now” price was a little low. Live and learn I guess.
In a departure from my usual library related postings, I have a solution that few people seem to consider. Take government out the marriage license business. Just let people get married in whatever church or organization supports their way of life and be done with it. State marriage simply replaces a church’s authority with that of the state. This quote from the Ohio Bar Association (found via this post at Homeland Stupidity) spells it out pretty clearly:
“Marriage is a legal as well as a spiritual and personal relationship. When you repeat your marriage vows, you enter into a legal contract. There are three parties to that legal contract: 1) you; 2) your spouse; and 3) the state of Ohio. The state is a party to the contract because under its laws, you have certain obligations and responsibilities to each other, to any children you may have, and to Ohio.”
The first amendment of the Constitution states,”Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” This can be interpreted in many ways and Findlaw has some history and background. The phrase “separation of church and state” comes from a letter written in 1802 by then President Thomas Jefferson.
A prohibition against same sex marriage does not belong in the Constitution. It is an endorsement of one particular religious view, which seems if not directly in opposition to the First Amendment, at least in conflict with it.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State has more commentary and a form where you can email your Representative and Senators.
Last night around 8:30 or so, we get a call on our home phone. We don’t use it much, we only have a land line for emergencies and the occasional local phone call. Usually the only calls we get are telemarketing calls.
This call was not a telemarketer, caller ID said it was from C. McClain 404-246-9353. We’re used to people dialing us as a wrong number, our number used to belong to a Jeff Bridges. No, probably not that Jeff Bridges. We figure whoever this is will hear the answering machine message and realize that they have the wrong number.
No such luck, the guy calls back in less than a minute. This time I answer. He asks for Danielle. I tell him he has the wrong number and hang up. I figure that’s the end of it. Nope, he calls back, again less than a minute later. Stephanie answers this time, angrily tells him not to call back and wake up our sleeping baby.
That’s got to be the end, right? Nope. We go to bed and around 11:00 he calls again. We let it ring. He calls again, we let it ring. The third time he calls, I’m really mad. I answer and tell him he has the wrong &^%*@$ number. Then I leave the phone off the hook.
6:30 a.m. and it’s time to feed Lisa. I figure we’re safe and plug the phone back in. We feed Lisa and crawl back into bed. The phone rings, yep, it’s Mr. McClain. I answer. This time he asks to speak to Jessica, different girl than before. I tell him he has the wrong number. He argues with me, he doesn’t have the wrong number. I tell him he does and to not call this number again.
So it’s 10:45 and I think we’re safe. Hopefully, Mr. C. McClain, 404-246-9353, a cell phone user from Atlanta has sobered up, dialed the right number, and hooked up with whatever women he was trying to find last night. Ladies, if you are trying to find Mr. C. McClain, remember his cell phone number is 404-246-9353. Write it down, maybe on the walls of a bathroom stall somewhere, preferably a men’s room. 🙂
Update: He just called again at 3:20 p.m. He just won’t give up.
Too much information? In a stunning breakthrough research librarians have now discovered ‘The Cure for Information Overload‘. Their paper has some interesting findings based in part on Nick Belkin’s Anomalous States of Knowledge.
Haven’t posted in a while, been a bit busy. Can’t really seem to get a whole lot done, something is always coming up. Usually related to Lisa 🙂 I’m not complaining, I’ve just realized that my time management skills are exceptionally bad right now. Not that they’ve even been that good.
But this next week is spring break, so it’s time to hit the reset button. I’ve got a paper that’s due April 4, and two more papers that are due around the end of April. I’ve also got to start working on a poster session for LITA 2006 , “Web Services Librarianship 2000 to 2005: Analysis of Position Announcements”. At least the Downtown Sheraton Hotel in Nashville looks nice.
I don’t like a state where they have to use sirens to warn you about the weather. We had some nasty weather last night and the tornado sirens went off twice. So we went and hid on the bathroom for a while. The dogs and the cat hid under the bed. I didn’t think I was very claustrophobic until being forced to shut myself in a bathroom for a while. Fun, Fun.
Watching Murderball on AE right now. Quadriplegic rugby is a tough sport. They use these ultrafast wheelchairs that are built like battering rams. Not a sport I’d like to play, but interesting to watch.